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Battlefields Trip - May 2018

This year the school took a trip to the Ypres Salient Battlefields in Belgium. We explored through trenches, bunkers and craters left behind from WW1. The Ypres Salient was set up by the British, French, Candian and Belgium Allies to defend against the German invasion. The first battle of Ypres was on the 19th of October 1914 and the final battle ended almost exactly four years later on the 2nd of October 1918 just 40 days before the end of the war. The five major battles endured in Ypres led to huge casualities from both the Allies and the German side and is estimated at over 1.2 million casualities.